IMMINENT LANDING IN CUBA BY ROLANDO ARCADIO MASFERRER ROJAS AND HIS GROUP

Created: 8/16/1963

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KEY WEST TOOAT BELONGING TO MASFERRER'S GROUP, HEESSAGE THAT SOME AGENTS OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WERE SEARCHING HIS HEADQUARTERS AT TME SENATE HOTEL IN MIAMI.

0 pM THE SAME DAY SIX MEN ARRIVED ATHOTEL, SHOWED THEIR IDENTIFICATION AND BEGANFOUND SEVERAL UNIFORMS, COMPASSES,ANDTHE SEARCH WAS BEING CONDUCTED, ROJAS WENT OUT TOAN UN1DENT(FED AMERICAN. THE AMERICAN SUBSEQUENTLYTHE HOTEL, APPROACHED THE SEARCH PARTY AND GREETED ONELIKE AN OLDHESE TWO MEN THEN RETIREDROOM. WHEN THEY EMERGED, ALL THE EQUIPMENT THATCONFISCATED WAS RETURNED, INCLUDING THE GRENADE WHICH

WAS GIVEN TO ROJAS. IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER, SIX OF'MASFERRER'S MEN WERE TRANSFERRED TO AN UNIDENTIFIED KEY NEAR FLORIDA WHERE THEY WERE TO LINK UP WITH MORE OF MASFERRER'S GROUP.

THE EARLY PART OF THE WEEK OFUGUST,CARLOS ZAYAS CASTRO WERE TO LEAVE FOR PUERTO

CA8EZAS, NICARAGUA, EACH IN POSSESSION OF THE NECESSARYTO ENTER THE COUNTRY AND MOVE AROUND FREELY.

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CUdA.l THISODE MESSAGE WHICH MEANT THAT TWOr (ED MEXICANS, WHO WERE MEMBERS OF MASFERRER'S GROUP, HAD ENTERED HASANA LEGALLY THROUGH ONE OF THE REGULAR FLIGHTS OF THE MEXICAN AIRLINES. THESE MEN WERE TO MAKECONTACT WITH MASFERRER'S MEN IN CUSA AND TO INSTRUCT THEM IN THE FORTHCOMING OPERATION.

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